“Till Your Mud Settles”

It’s often said that to be productive and happy, a person has to feel part of something larger than her or himself, and serve that larger thing with a true and abiding heart.
What is the larger thing we are part of as human beings? Must the conditioning of the culture in which we happen to be raised determine our perception and worldview?
Or is something far vaster and greater going on with evolution, of which humans are an inextricable part, though to this point a failing experiment? Is man truly the measure of all things?
To fail as a human being has nothing to do with society’s yardstick of status, wealth and respectability. As is plain for all with eyes to see, a person can be a